Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, and I am a worker. I want to get the children singing, to know my songs, and to know me, as I have their parents and their grandparents in all parts of the world. And if, in the course of this work. I happen to help some poor fellow over the top, that is my reward...
Though out of politics and in cinema in 1923, Mr. Hays felt that he should help "clear the deck" for the impending Coolidge campaign by assisting the G. O. P. to pay off a $520,000 deficit remaining from the Hays-managed Harding campaign. He asked Sinclair to contribute. They agreed that $75,000 was all Sinclair should give. At the same time, until other contributions could be solicited, Sinclair volunteered $185,000 more, to help make the G. O. P. books seem balanced. The money was delivered in one bundle of Government bonds and the total...
...George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate and West Virginians say that, should he choose to run, he could (with Summers Sharp's help) campaign in two parts of the State at once, and, if elected, attend the executive office only half the time...
...just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas-does not empty its own secretions, not only is food absorption distorted, but gallstones and jaundice...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, governor of Massachusetts: "Business, as such, desires that the lower schools should help the boy to understand his obligations to the social, civic and economic community . . . as the English would put it, to 'play the game...